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Aḥmad ibn Mājid (Arabic: أحمد بن ماجد), also known as the "Arab Admiral" (أمير البحر العربي, ʿAmīr al-Baḥr al-ʿArabī) and the "Lion of the Sea", was an Arab navigator and cartographer born c. 1432 in Julfar, the present-day Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.
A great way to understand both of these explanations is to take a close look at the life of one fifteenth-century Omani navigator. His name was Ahmad Ibn Mājid. Map of the Indian Ocean showing the route of the fifteenth-century Chinese explorer Zheng He.
Aḥmad ibn Mājid, also known as the "Arab Admiral" and the "Lion of the Sea", was an Arab navigator and cartographer born c. 1432 in Julfar, the present-day Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. He was raised in a family famous for seafaring; at the age of seventeen he was able to navigate ships.
Aḥmad ibn Mājid (Arabic: أحمد بن ماجد), also known as the "Arab Admiral" (أمير البحر العربي, ʿAmīr al-Baḥr al-ʿArabī) and the "Lion of the Sea", was an Arab navigator and cartographer born c. 1432 in Julfar, the present-day Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.
The Lion of the Sea: Ahmad Ibn M. ā. jid. Bridgette Byrd O’Connor. This image depicts a dhow, the dominant type of ship used in the Indian Ocean during Ibn M. ā jid’s time. By BHP and Peter Quatch, CC BY-NC 4.0. Collective learning on the seas. Ibn M. ā. jid earned a reputation as a master navigator. His seafaring skills were known ...
fifteenth-century sailor who traveled the Indian Ocean. His name was Ahmad Ibn Mājid. Map of the Indian Ocean showing the route of the fifteenth-century Chinese explorer Zheng He. We don’t know specific routes taken by Ahmad Ibn M ā jid but we do know that he carefully described tides, monsoon winds, and currents near various port cities ...
Ahmad Ibn Majid, a much-read Arab navigator of the fifteenth century, warned in his treatise that captains of vessels leaving the roadstead of Calicut should beware of a people called “al-Kabkuri”, whose boats could lurk along the coconut plantations. Type. Chapter. Information. Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean.
